freeze
Pronunciation change
Verb change
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Third-person singular |
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- (transitive) If you freeze something, you cool it until it becomes solid.
- Water freezes at 0°C.
- The chicken will go bad soon. We should freeze it and then we can cook it next week.
- (intransitive) If you freeze, you feel very cold.
- I was freezing because I had forgotten my coat.
Noun change
- (countable) A freeze is a time when the temperature is cold.
- (countable) A freeze is when the usual way things are done is stopped.